Inaugural Terror Australis Festival program launched
Tuesday, 27 August 2019
The program for the inaugural Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival, which runs in various locations in Tasmania’s Huon Valley from 31 October to 3 November, has been announced. With...
Text acquires new Grenville novel
Tuesday, 27 August 2019
Text has acquired world rights to a new novel by Kate Grenville called A Room Made of Leaves. Following Australian pastoralist and merchant Elizabeth Macarthur, the novel ‘picks apart ideas...
NZ Book Trade Industry Awards 2019 winners announced
Monday, 26 August 2019
The winners of the 2019 New Zealand Book Trade Industry Awards were announced in Auckland on 23 August. The winners in each category are: Bookshop of the year Unity Books,...
US publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement
Monday, 26 August 2019
In the US, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has filed a lawsuit against Audible in a bid to stop its Captions program, which transcribes audio to text alongside its...
Best wins 2019 Thomas Shapcott Prize
Monday, 26 August 2019
Poet Luke Best has won the 2019 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for his manuscript ‘Cadaver Dog’. Best receives $2000 and a publishing contract with University of Queensland Press (UQP), which...
McDougall wins Special Book Award of China
Monday, 26 August 2019
Australian translator and academic Bonnie Suzanne McDougall has won a Special Book Award of China at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF). McDougall was awarded the prize for her work...
Springer Nature and Projekt DEAL strike ‘world’s largest transformative open access agreement’
Friday, 23 August 2019
Springer Nature and German university consortium Projekt DEAL have signed a memorandum of understanding on what the organisations are calling the ‘world's largest transformative open access agreement’, reports the Bookseller....
ABA announces 2020 conference dates
Friday, 23 August 2019
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that the 96th annual conference and trade exhibition will be held at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney from 21–22 June 2020. In conjunction...
New England Writers’ Centre partners with Varuna to offer one-week fellowship
Friday, 23 August 2019
The New England Writers’ Centre (NEWC) has partnered with Varuna, The Writers’ House to offer a one-week fellowship to writers residing in the federal electorate of New England. The recipient...
Writing WA launches $10,000 literary medal
Friday, 23 August 2019
Writing WA has announced a new literary medal for ‘an individual who has made a substantial contribution to the vitality and success of Western Australia’s literary culture’. Produced by the...
Chew wins 2019 Overland VU Short Story Prize
Friday, 23 August 2019
Joyce Chew's short story ‘Water bodies’ has won this year's Overland Victoria University (VU) Short Story Prize. Chosen from a shortlist announced earlier this month, the winning story 'reflects on...
Berbay to expand publishing program
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Melbourne-based children’s publisher Berbay Books has announced it will double its publishing list from eight to 16 titles in 2020. After a few years of ‘significant’ sales growth of its...
CBCA winners announced
Thursday, 22 August 2019
The winners of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winning titles are: Older readers: Between Us (Clare Atkins, Black Inc.)...
Wakefield sells debut YA novel to US
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Wakefield Press has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to Poppy Nwosu’s debut YA novel Making Friends with Alice Dyson to Walker Books US for a five-figure sum. The first book...
‘The Secret Runners of New York’ tops Australian YA bestsellers chart
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Matthew Reilly’s dystopian time-travel thriller The Secret Runners of New York leads the Australian YA bestsellers chart for July, unseating the film tie-in edition of Colin Thiele’s classic children’s book...
Scribble sells Bell and Colpoys picture books in first German deal
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Scribe’s children’s imprint, Scribble, has sold German-language rights to Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys’ picture books All the Ways to be Smart and The Underwater Fancy-Dress Parade to Suhrkamp. The...
Overland appoints Araluen Corr, Dunk as co-editors
Thursday, 22 August 2019
Literary journal Overland has announced Evelyn Araluen Corr and Jonathan Dunk as its two new co-editors. Araluen Corr and Dunk take over from former editor Jacinda Woodhead, who recently announced...
Hardie Grant Egmont sells ‘Welcome to Your Period’ to four territories
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold rights in four territories to Welcome to Your Period (Yumi Stynes and Melissa Kang). North American rights were sold to Walker Books/Candlewick Press in a...
The era of throwaway arts
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
‘The four-year model is supposed to invest in the arts and organisations long-term, but now it seems more like it’s reinforcing the project model: prioritising new programs that are disposable,...
Book designer spotlight: Peter Long
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Peter Long worked as a designer in theatre and film before moving across to the book industry, where he has worked as a freelancer for most of his career, aside...
Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation, Amazon partner to donate books to school libraries
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Amazon Australia has partnered with the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation (ACLF) and children’s laureate Morris Gleitzman to donate $20,000 worth of books to 40 Australian primary school libraries. Each school...
Bain appointed acting director of Monash University Press
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Monash University Publishing has appointed Greg Bain as acting director for the press, following the departure of former director Nathan Hollier. Bain has been working in publishing for three decades,...
Copyright Agency announces recipients of $500k in funding grants
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Twenty-five arts organisations have received more than $500,000 in the latest round of funding from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Literary organisations and projects that received funding in the various...
HarperCollins congratulates CBCA Award-winning authors Emily Rodda and James Moloney
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
HarperCollins Children’s Books Australia is delighted to congratulate our authors on their 2019 CBCA Awards. Emily Rodda’s His Name Was Walter is the winner of the CBCA 2019 Book of...
Walker Books congratulates CBCA Honour Book authors
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Walker Books Australia congratulates Sarah Epstein, Mark Greenwood and illustrator Andrew McLean, whose books Small Spaces and The Happiness Box: A Wartime Book of Hope, have been chosen as Honour...
Walker Books signs Claire Saxby for new Nature Story Book
Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Walker Books Australia has signed acclaimed author Claire Saxby for a new title in the highly successful and award-winning Nature Story Book series, which has sold over 180,000 copies in...
Save on advertising in PW’s Frankfurt editions
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Publishers Weekly’s title showcase is a way for publishers, agents and self-publishers to affordably advertise in PW’s Frankfurt issues, including its three Show Dailies, which are distributed at the fair. PW is...
Readings announces 2019 New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Readings has announced the shortlist for its 2019 New Australian Fiction Prize. The shortlisted titles are: A Constant Hum (Alice Bishop, Text) Inappropriation (Lexi Freiman, A&U) The Flight of Birds...
Change for Central Recovery press
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Publisher: Central Recovery press Old distributor: Footprint Books New distributor: Eurospan (TLD Distribution) Changeover date: 31 August 2019 Returns cut-off: 27 September 2019 Contact URL: www.footprint.com.au
Bachoura wins Lifted Brow Prize for Experimental Nonfiction
Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Literary journal the Lifted Brow and RMIT’s non/fictionLab has announced Jean Bachoura as the winner of its 2019 Prize for Experimental Nonfiction for his essay ‘Tretinoin’. The winner was chosen...
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